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With two kilos of clothes on a week-long cycle tour

Barbara Merz-Weigandt

 · 26.10.2009

With two kilos of clothes on a week-long cycle tourPhoto: Daniel Simon
With two kilos of clothes on a week-long cycle tour
If you haven't booked a luggage service for your cycle tour, you should think about how you put your clothes together.

Two and a half kilos, that's all you need. Thanks to a cleverly organised wardrobe, the panniers hang loosely on the carrier. TREKKINGBIKE reveals the ideal packing recipe.

Even experienced cycle tourists ask themselves time and again, what should I take with me on my cycle tour? After all, you have to be prepared - for sun and rain, wind, church and restaurant visits. The TREKKINGBIKE editors have collated their experiences and compiled a packing list as an example. The requirements were: The equipment should be sufficient for a week-long trekking bike trip, it should weigh as little as possible (under five kilos) and the items must be as versatile as possible.

The full-length article from issue 5/2009 is available as a free PDF download.

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Touring clothing (pdf)

Barbara Merz-Weigandt

Barbara Merz-Weigandt

Editor-in-Chief

Barbara Merz-Weigandt, editor-in-chief of MYBIKE, the magazine for dedicated everyday and touring cyclists, lives on Lake Starnberg. Her great passion: travelling. She has crossed the Alps by touring bike - on the Via Claudia Augusta, the Ciclovia Munich-Venezia and the Alpe-Adria cycle path. She has explored the islands of Croatia and the Lycian coast by motorised sailboat and bike, and has travelled to all the Balearic and Canary Islands by bike. Her favourite place to ride her mountain bike is on the trails in the Bavarian Alps, the Dolomites or on La Palma.

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